The Iron Marshal

by Louis L'Amour

2008

Status

Available

Genres

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Fiction

Collection

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Publication

Bantam Books (2008)

Description

Fiction. Western. Thriller. Historical Fiction. He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when young Tom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on a fast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had big dreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figured that a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect for the job. He didn�??t know that a high-stakes cattle drive was headed his way and that leading it was a vindictive rancher bent on settling an old score, even if he had to destroy the town to do it. Tom had himself stuck in the middle of the feud before sunset on his first day in town. All he could do was hope that his years on the Bowery had left him with the smarts he needed to keep himself ali… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MerryMary

A brash young shoulder-striker from a tough New York City gang finds himself on a freight train west. He hops off in a little frontier town and must wait for an east-bound train to take him home. In the meantime, he finds ways to make himself useful around the little town - and finds himself in the

middle of a powderkeg about to blow the town apart.

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LibraryThing member edspicer

It was action packed and full of adventure and problem solving. The main charcter, Tom is agraid of no one and can get himself out of any situation. Q5P5 AHS/Nick H.

LibraryThing member lamour

Tom Shanaghy moves to New York from Ireland. With both parents dead, he survives on the streets of the city by helping gamblers and pimps collect their money. Eventually another gang attempts to murder him and his escape puts him in a box car that takes him to Kansas. There he quickly finds himself

made marshal of the town when no one else will take the job and save the town from a clash of locals angry men.

He senses that there is more going on then an angry rancher threatening a family of bad men and soon finds himself trying to unravel a scheme to steal all the money local businessmen have raised to buy cattle from the drives coming in from Texas. This is the usual fast paced action filled L'Amour fiction we were use to in his novels and short stories.

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LibraryThing member Whiskey3pa

One of the more creative takes on the western genre by the author. A little more of the Chick Bowdrie detective angle combined with a fish out of water protagonist. Well constructed book.

LibraryThing member kslade

Pretty good, but I don't remember much. Tough marshal.

LibraryThing member fuzzi

A young Irish orphan arrives in New York, finds work as a smith and assisting the shoulder-strikers of Tammany Hall. One day while facing enemies in overwhelming odds he hides in a freight car and eventually winds up in a Kansas town in need of a sheriff.

I liked this story, quite a bit, probably

as it's a slightly different plot in the Western genre.

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LibraryThing member jamesjarrett00

An immigrant shoulder striker from New York City ends up in small town Kansas. He ends up becoming the towns marshal and needs to protect it from cattle drivers and thieves. I enjoyed the book, especially the focus in the first part of the book on happenings in New York, something Louis L'Amour

doesn't focus on most time.

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